Archive for the ‘m-Commerce’ Category
Thursday, August 28th, 2008
In 2005, I conducted a study on m-commerce for microfinance as part of my action consultancy at the Asian Institute of Management.
In my meetings with microfinance members, I brought along a ... 1.5Megapixel Kodak camera to take snapshots of our activities.
I'm glad to hear from my friend John that there ...
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Monday, August 25th, 2008
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Globe is raising the incentive to use G-Cash. They've made it more attractive for subscribers to use G-Cash to buy load.
I have friends who are earning quite a good profit by loading airtime through G-Cash. They get themselves some G-Cash and use it to buy ...
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Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
I was very excited to read the full page advertisements of Globe and Western Union's remittance partnership. They finally piloted the service in Hawaii.
To recall, a few months ago
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Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
New clipping from GMANews.TV:
MANILA, Philippines - Citibank, the largest credit card issuer in the country, plans to boost market share by pushing prospective cardholders to make purchases using mobile phones.
Citibank on Friday launched CitiMobile, which allows cardholders to order food, reload prepaid phones, buy Internet time, or pay bills without ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
I was at an MRT station Yesterday and was wondering what passengers were watching while waiting for the train.
They were watching the MRT TV's, those sleek, black flat-screen TV's at MRT stations. The TV was flashing some movie trailers and other clips from Omniprime Marketing Inc. (OMI). Thus the name of ...
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Wednesday, November 21st, 2007
I got this lead from dlethe01:
November 15, 2007 - OMI Mobile Solutions conducted its internal live test at MRT North Ave. Station to Taft Ave. Station. Succesfully activated OMI E-Wallet and purchase single journey MRT mobile tickets for SMART Communications and SUN Cellular.
http://www.omniprime.net/
Some notes:
Not much detail in the omniprime website. ...
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Thursday, September 6th, 2007
Colleague John Owens from RBAP MABS keeps me attuned with developments in their mobile phone banking solutions for Rural Banks.
John's group has a website ( Mobile Phone Banking for clients of Rural Banks - http://mobilephonebanking.rbap.org/ ) that brings together information about Mobile Phone banking solutions for Rural Banks.
They have information about the different ...
Posted in ICT4D, m-Commerce | 2 Comments »
Sunday, July 29th, 2007
Look what we've got.
Smart is coming out with a technology-enabled / mobile-commerce-enabled transportation pass at the MRT.
Evidence is a spiffy silver booth at the North Ave Station of the MRT labelled "Metropass" and sporting a Smart Money poster. I didn't find any details about the Metropass service, though. I had a ...
Posted in Edong's Dreams, m-Commerce | 19 Comments »
Tuesday, December 5th, 2006
An e-mail question from a Pinay (married to a Japanese ata):
GUD PM PO.PWEDE PO BANG MAKAPAGPADALA SA JAPAN NG PERA GAMIT ANG G-CASH?PANO PO?
My reply:
Wala pa hong International G-Cash Outlet sa Japan. (See List of International G-Cash partners)
International G-Cash Outlets
Provinces and Countries are listed alphabetically
"List as of 02/20/2006"
* ...
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Wednesday, September 20th, 2006
I found a post from Nox about m-Commerce and microfinance in the Philippines. I couldn't tell which World Bank reference he's reading although it sounds familiar.
It reminded me of a paper which I've kept in my Inbox.
I posted the paper on Mobile Tulay:
In April 2006, I got an email from ...
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Tuesday, August 1st, 2006
Last week was my first attempt at using the TickeTXT service of Smart in SM Megamall.
TickeTXT allows Smart subscribers to buy cinema tickets through texting and Smart Money.
I gave it a try and was half-expecting that the service will fail. I just wanted to know how it will fail.
I was ...
Posted in m-Commerce | 8 Comments »
Monday, July 31st, 2006
G-Pass made it's debut last Friday at the MRT stations from Cubao to Ayala. I tried it out myself. I'd say it's pleasantly better than I was expecting.
Here's some additional info that people should know about ...
What is G-Pass?
An alternative way to enter the MRT using a chip instead of ...
Posted in m-Commerce | 43 Comments »
Friday, July 28th, 2006
In September 2005, I found out that LBC withdrew their G-Cash partnership with Globe.
Here’s another G-Cash fallout: 2Go, the courier delivery service of Aboitiz, no longer conducts G-Cash transactions.
Once upon a time, 2Go offered Cash-out services (convert G-Cash to Cash).
I spoke to 2Go staff at Megamall and they said the ...
Posted in m-Commerce | 2 Comments »
Thursday, July 27th, 2006
(Follow-up to m-Commerce in the Philippines: The way to go)
Yesterday, I proposed a way to make G-Cash as ubiquitous as AutoloadMax. Basically, Globe just needs to apply the same distribution principle of AutoloadMax on G-Cash. Then, there'll be 800,000 points of cash-in/cash-out throughout the country.
Why hasn’t this solution been implemented? My ...
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
I spoke to an American development finance consultant last April - Mark Pickens from The Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP). In that conversation, I told him that until now, there is still no viable and compelling business model for G-Cash and Smart Money merchants. That is one reason ...
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Tuesday, July 25th, 2006
Globe (and its partner merchants) usually charges P10 or 1% of amount for each conversion from cash to G-Cash (referred to as “cash-in”).
I always thought this service charge didn’t make sense and it’s always been my position that this cash-in service charge should be scrapped.
An advertisement came out ...
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Monday, July 24th, 2006
Finally, some indication of how the MRT will enable commuters to use their cellphones to enter the MRT stations.
The MRT ticketing system is up for a technology upgrade that will allow commuters to reload their MRT tickets using their cellphone. So says an article in the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) ...
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Tuesday, June 27th, 2006
I saw a poster of G-nius, a contest of Globe for students.
The contest calls for students to create innovative uses of G-Cash.
Some of the criteria:
has to be easy to implement
cost-effective
creative
This is not the first time Globe came out with this G-nius contest. But you know, I never ...
Posted in m-Commerce | 4 Comments »
Monday, March 20th, 2006
Got this in my email box:
Magandang umaga po, san po matatagpuan dito sa jeju city south Korea ang opisina ng smart padala remittance partners abroad? please reply as soon as possible...
Sorry, I don't have that information either.
I get these kinds of message every so often. Filipinos in other countries looking ...
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Thursday, March 9th, 2006
Here’s a story I gathered from my colleague who was trying out G-Cash.
She went to a National Bookstore branch in Glorietta, she wanted to make a purchase using G-Cash. When she was at the cashier, she was told that the particular branch was no longer accepting G-Cash payments. (Note, ...
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